On July 5, the Cornel West independent presidential campaign submitted 29,000 signatures to the Georgia Secretary of State. The legal requirement is 7,500.
Georgia election officials customarily do a very poor job of checking signatures. The validity is invariably low because the various county election offices don’t have clear guidance from the state. No one has got on the Georgia ballot by petition since 2000. Furthermore, Georgia has a law that an entire sheet is invalid if it contains even one signature with an address that is not in the county for which that petition is for.
Other groups submitting a presidential petition in Georgia this year are the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
The Libertarian Party is now ballot-qualified for all statewide office. The Green Party is on for president because under the new law, it is on for president because it is also on in at least 20 other states or territories.
Would not Kennedy qualify in the same way as the Greens?
Because the law says the party must be on for president in at least 20 states or territories. Kennedy doesn’t have his own party in that many states. The law is discriminatory against independent presidential candidates. It ought to say that if an independent is on in at least 20 other places he or she is on in Georgia. I suppose if Georgia rejects the Kennedy petition he can sue on that basis.
“Georgia has a law that an entire sheet is invalid if it contains even one signature with an address that is not in the county for which that petition is for.”
Petitioners: One signature per sheet should take care of that…
Georgia SoS: Wow, we just got a 29,000 sheet petition!
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Az is right about the partition shits?
Wow, I guess one signature per sheet is a good idea then.
The Independent technicality is so ridiculous. It should instead be like if “a presidential candidate” is on the ballot in at least 20 states (and I would add “and/or territories” because DC exists), then he or she should be on the ballot in Georgia
Who cares! Trump is the only person worth voting for
Kennedy did not qualify for ballot access in 20 states in time to qualify for the ballot under that criteria and that critea for qualify for the ballot may only apply to candidates of a single polutical party. Kennedy is getting ballot access in most states as an independent, but he is getting on the ballot in some states with a party label, and among these states he has several party labels.
Trump 2024 hit the nail on the head!